The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-04-04

marlxable contributions to the literature Of the
war which has yet been given to the public is
told by Edmund Kirke, and in it he recounts, for
the first time, the terms Of peace which Lincoln
was willing to offer to the South. Mr.. Whittier
has poem entitled On the Big Horn, founded on
the incident of the application of one of the Indi-
ans who killed Gen. Custer for entrance to Gen.
Armstrong; Indian School at Hampton, " 9th
er noticeable features are an amusing negro story
Lazarus Martin, de Cullud Lieyer, by W. W. Ar
cher; Via Crucis, letter written by Roman
official in Jerusalemiat the time of the Crucihxion
by Edward /. Stevenson; A Tory ParSon (hIather
Byes, Of Hollis Street Church, BOSTON,; and
last, but not least, Or. Oliver Wendell Holiness
second INSTRUMENT of Our Hundred Days in Eu-
rope, ~ when ne gives accounts Of Mr.. Gladstone
n n tle House OF Commons, visit to Windsor Cas-
tie, ana other in teresting sketches.
In Scribners for April is given the first Install
ment of the Unpublished Letters OF Thackeray.
These letters were written chiefly to Mrs. Brook
field who is still living in London, and her hus.
band the late Rev. W. II. Brookfeld who were
among Thackeray's most intimate friends. Some
of them arc enlivened with sketches, which add
greatly to the interest OF the publication. Other
noteworthy articles are Lent; Hugnes's on Mod
paper on American Elephant Myths and ex-Min-
lister Washburne's "reminiscences ofthe Siege and
Commune of Paris, which are concluded.
The leading article of Harper's for April is The
Kirke. which is charming description of Chatta-
nooga pointing out its extraordinary natural adj
vantages, ASIA site for great city. Coincide
Franchise is made the subject of an exceedingly
entertaining paper of Theodore Child. The il
lustrations are by French artists and photograph
ers and include portrait of Coquelin who is soon
to visit this country. A remarkable contribution
to the enlightenment of the labor problem is Lee
Meriwethers account of How Working-men Live
in Europe and America, based upon the authors
lie and observations among the tOlllng classes OF
Italy, STltz;erland Germany man France, Belgium,
w. ID. Howes's novel, April Hopes, continues to
portray Cambridge society life. Charles Dudley
Warner describes his recent tour to the city OF
Mexico, with the impressions derived from that
journey, in the first part of a series of Mexican
Notes. curious little story, Back from the Fro
zen Pole, by Ellen L. Dorsey, will interest lovers
of the marvellous.
The Wide Awake for April opens with a beau
tiful Easter morning frontispiece of lilies and
chanting children by w. L. Taylor, who also il
Illustrates the quaint article by Mrs. IL. G. Rowe
| entitled An Yankee Schoomstress A Canadian
| poet Miss Agnes Machar, has an Easter poem
| Easter Lilies, and Mrs. Snsan Archer Weiss, one
of the most thorough of folklore delivers an arti
| Gle upon old Easter obseryanees, and Dora Read
| Goodale a funny little plant entitled Easter
Wares, in which she bewails the decay of the
race of hens who used to lay gay and beautiful
eggs at Easter-time. Mr.. Mason, the curator o.
the National Museum, contributes an interest u {
article upon Indian Dolls and their Cradles, viii
twenty-three illustrations by Chandler Among
other interesting papers are Homes Underground
by G. f. Holden; Marion Hanand by Mrs Bolton
The Shipwrecked Cologne Bottle. Nantucket
Story of Susan Coolidges~There are some delight
full talks with the readers by Mrs. James T. Fields
Miss Quincy, Miss Harris and others, and charm
ing poems by Mrs. A. ID. I. Whitney, NJ. L.
Emma Huntington Mason, Edith Thomas Mar,
Z. Wilkins, Mrs. Clara Doty Bates and Anna +
Burnham.